Live From The Hatpub, It's Round 2 Of Cup Play!!!
 

Round 2 of the Hattrick Cup!!
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“Welcome to Morgantown!!!!!” (Yelling, catcalling, various profanity and excitement in the background) “This is Loretta “Sloppy” Jones with you LIVE from the HatPub in Morgantown, West BY GOD Virginia, covering the Goldurnears 2nd round cup match against division six side Puerto Rico Gurus. We are just tickled sh(bleep)tless to be here with Goldurnears owner “bg” Rob Maier, who decided to watch the game here with us. It seems that he has some phobia of Puerto Rico, something to do with an ...ah... incident there in his youth. Hello bg, what are you drinking?

“HA, up yours Sloppy Jo”

“After the game tiger, grrrrrrrr”

(in stage voice) “Shhhh, we don’t want Bebec getting wind of this”

“Why not, maybe she’d like to join us?”

“Um.....hey, let’s check out my starting line up for today’s game”

GK - #2 Walter “head stuck in the” Sands (weak form, inadequate keeping) We originally thought that stucky would be our long term starter, but he has since been beaten out by “Conchito”. We are still waiting for him to pop to passable so that we can turn him into 6000 stadium seats. Maybe we will get lucky and it will happen this week during our general training.

CD(offensive) - #4 Alojzije “easy for you to say” Braun (inadequate form, passable defense, solid stamina, inadequate playmaking, Technical specialist) One of the two players who is participating in both games this week. With so many second team or low formers on the side, we thought it was important to inject our best defender in the middle. Easy is also a scoring threat, as he pumped one in during his first league match against the hated Arsenel Gunners. The soon to be f(bleep)cking defunct Gunners.

LWD(defensive) - #8 William “lame duck” Tompkins (passable form, inadequate defense, inadequate winger) We try to make light of duckster’s nickname, but the truth is sometimes hard to take. This is the only player on our depth chart that isn’t passable or better in his primary skill. Inadequate at both defense and winger is just enough for me to play him. We don’t have any funds available for an upgrade, so ducky will remain with us, sweating our youth pulls from week to week. No way at all he will survive the end of the season, but with inadequate scoring and solid set pieces, we hope he will find a home somewhere.

RWD(defensive) - #10 Stanislaw “Wolfgang” Kociuba (wretched form, inadequate defense, excellent stamina) At least Tompkins is actually on the depth chart where he is playing. Wolfgang is one of the top three midfielders on our team, but his form has been lousy, so he hasn’t made the cut at midfield this week. Perhaps we are taking something of a liberty by injecting him into the defense. In fact, what is he even doing on the wing, he needs to be in the middle (shouts for an assistant, who begins booting up his laptop). Get on that G(bleep)d Damn F(BLEEP)UCKING thing and change to asymmetric in the back, what the hell are you people doing!! (sounds of bg slugging back a 20oz Amber Bock) Nurse! More medicine over here, pronto! Put Tompkins over on the other wing, and slot Kociuba as the left central defender, normal. Lord, what I have to deal with.

RIM - #17 Diogo “Je” Sousa Rodrigues (poor form, passable playmaking, passable stamina, Quick specialist) This will be Je sousa’s first time in the bag.

LIM - #16 Bernard “detective” Martinez (inadequate form, passable playmaking, passable stamina, Technical specialist) Ditto for Martinez, we haven’t even gotten him a decent nickname yet.

IM(offensive) - #14 Jose “can you see the holes in the” Levy (weak form, passable playmaking, solid stamina) We set Jose offensive because of his stamina, and because we want to try and add a little punch towards the assualt on goal. If you haven’t noticed yet, we are really playing with a patchwork lineup.

LW(offensive) - #11 Elijah “the prophet” Dupree (inadequate form, solid winger, inadequate stamina, Technical specialist) The other man on the squad playing both games this week. All the prophet does is drop ball after ball after ball in the box at the feet of our strikers. Absolutely can not afford to do without him under the circumstances.

RW(towards middle) - #13 Richard “forest” Whittaker (weak form, inadequate winger, solid stamina, inadequate passing, inadequate playmaking, inadequate defense) I guess I have more than one player not solid in his primary skill on the depth chart, but the fact that he is inadequate everywhere makes up for that. My first foray into the towards middle order, I want to really hammer the possession if I can.

LF – #24 Andy “Capp” Morales (weak form, passable scoring) Has made decent apparences previously, we hope for another today.

RF - #22 John “gimpy” Colvin (wretched form, passable scoring, passable passing, solid stamina) Gimpy is so named because he is an original member of the team, and has been injured for about eighty percent of its existence. John alternates between striker and central defense. He is playing forward today because Wolfgang can’t play up front.

“There you have it BJ, I mean SJ.”

“Ha ha, bj, I mean bg. So, with your less than stellar line up today, I presume you won’t be PICing again as you did in round 1?”

“You’d be wrong there Sloppy, seconds, I mean, that’s the second time today. With my nasty coach, I don’t dare miss an opportunity to improve team spirit. Besides, assuming we do win this game, we still have to play yet another road game against a division V side before I get the chance at a home game. We can’t afford to worry to much about the cup yet, if we get by this week, and honestly, I think we still are overwhelming favorites to continue, then we will worry about the cup. We play another new team without an owner in league next week, so we can obviously reverse our strategy then, and put our best foot forward then. Maybe our round 3 opponent won’t notice and take US a little too lightly.”

“Thanks for the interview, bg, enjoy the game. Don’t get too wasted, you’ll have quite a pair of handfulls in your hands this evening.” Now, we go live to our remote reporters at various other cup sites. Good luck to all the FOFC contingent, owners of HOOTERS, we hope to hear good things tonight!”

WOOT!!!!

im pumped!!! :)

Hey everyone, cup matches have already started in Canada!!!
My team is 8 people short from a sell out in only our second game in our upgraded 12000 seats stadium...

Here we goooooooo!!!!

Pintendre Pittbulls - Cornwall Axemen

Date: 4/9/2003 at 23:00
MatchID: 6865923
Arena: Pintendre Pittbulls Arena


The match is in progress, 4 minutes of the first half have been played.
11982 spectators arrived at Pintendre Pittbulls Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Pintendre had chosen a strategic 4-5-1 formation. They fielded: Mueller - Saint-Laurent, Ball, Willis, Rudoy - Macahan, Rossten, Lumpkin, Brouillard, Blackwell - Phelan.

Cornwall had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Shattock - Escamilla, McKean, Wilson, Brinkley - Rizzo, Conway, Rutherford, Low - Howe, Hurtubise.


FrogMan

good luck!!!!

ggggooooo PITBULLS!!!!!!!!

GGGOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!
 

Not much action so far, but the Pittbulls are ahead!!!



After a fine move down the middle Calvin Phelan nearly gave the home side one up in the 14:th minute. The finishing shot went just wide, though. Jack Rudoy sailed high, high above the opponents as he headed the 1-0 in after a corner kick after 22 minutes of play.


GO PITTBULLS!!!!!!

FrogMan

dola, please add 83 745 C$ to the bank account for that home game :D

FrogMan

Gotta love those header goals. One of my favorites. :)

Go Pitbulls!

that's one of the thing I like about this l'il text sim. If you've either played a little or watched even only a few highlights, you can imagine the corner kick coming to a crowd of players and then one guy jumping higher than the other and the GOAL!!!

:D

in the meantime:

A couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area after 28 minutes might have resulted in another goal for Pintendre. However, Alec Shattock made a spectacular save.

Third scoring chance for our team. Looks like we are dominating the possession battle... GO PITTBULLS!!!!

FrogMan

Last update from me, as I gotta run.


In the 35:th minute Pintendre put themselves up 2 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Per Rossten coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.


Should be back home in les than two hours. Ample time to catch your USA cup games guys!!! Good luck everyone and GOOOOOOOO PITTBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLSS! :D

FrogMan

more beer for everyone, and as Havok would say

WOOT!!!! WOOT!!!!

c[?] c[?] c[?]

I am psyched. Being the moron college student that I am, I actually went to class and completely forgot about my lineup, so I'm pretty sure I will be forced to forfeit tonight's game! That is, unless the game put a lineup together for me, although I doubt that's possible. Anybody know? Will I forfeit?

IT"S GAMETIME!!!!

samifan, there is often a default lineup of some sort put in, but I don't know the exact mechanisms involved, good luck, let us know (crosses fingers)

I HOPE NOT...I'm playing against you...

ahhh, inter-FOFC cup play, please guys, let's try and keep everything above the belt.

3 minutes in, no reports yet, THE WAIT IS AGONIZING

gooooo MISFITZ!!!

my backups better not blow it!!! :)

memo to thread - create FOFC roster of cup games for next week, so can have some sort of pick 'em competition with bragging rights and smack talking :)

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 3rd minute allowed Andy Morales to score 0 - 1 for goldurnears.

WHO'S YOUR DADDY!!!!!!

dam... the young wingback i just bought screwed up and they almost scored.

dam rookies ;)

3 minutes into the game, and I'm up 1-0! Woot!

The home team is the lower seed correct in the cup?

Andy Morales of goldurnears received a yellow card in the 8:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

I think Andy must have had too many lumps of sugar in his coffee this morning, a goal and a card and we aren't even ten minutes in.

thats wierd... im the home team and im waaaayyy better then the team im playing. Im playing almost all backups

woot!! 1-0 baby!

The 9:th minute saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a leak in the visitors right side defense. Scorer for Tomahawks was Tyler Britt.

WooHoo!

but DAMN I HATE rain! Left half my stadium empty

Excellent, Paul Dillon just put the McGees up 1-0. That is probably all we will need to win.

"Louisiana´s Xavi Matas shot the 0-1 goal in the 9:th minute, made possible by a deep pass from Hartwig Blissenbach which cut through the entire defensive line. "

woo-hoo, up 1-0 already...and with my defensive 5-4-1 formation 1 goal might be all I need to win.

Alright 10 minutes, up by one.

Phil Edwards was the first to reach the corner kick, but his header was saved by the keeper. However, Complex´s Michael Hvidt managed to get hold of the rebound and scored the 0-1 goal.

Havok - seeding is determined by where your team finished last season.

The visitors Bernard Martinez took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 10:th minute. 0 - 2 for goldurnears.

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY......

up 1-0 after 9 minutes

Samifan's team forfeited after displaying a 2-2-2 formation, I defeated them 5-0...at least I got some cash.

nothing in my game, but in checking a few others mylesknight is already down 2 - 0

11 minutes in, and already pulling back. After a low score last week, I wanted to get in on a rout. Maybe I will not concede a goal though. In 4 competition matches, the only goal I gave up was to a series VI bot.

The game had been on for 11 minutes when Tony Spicer broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Complex´s were up 0 - 2. After this Complex lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

Qwikshot,

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

love

rob

They scored on a freekick, I think I might be in for another painful adjusting to the new formation game...

1-1

I also have a half full stadium, and playing in rainy conditions.

I'm hoping my ubah defender Jonatan Jonsson pulls something out, he's the only transfer I've brought in, and it was through a bidding war with the team I'm playing, would be sweet if he had a great game.

ohhh ok Masked. That explains it.

For the love of god, show something happening, the suspense is killing me...or is it the everclear???

I've brought in a bunch of midfielders in the last week and wanting to give my top 2 players a rest moved one of them to forward and he came through for me.

What ever got into Felix Conroy, the crowd mumbled, as he suddenly struck a cross pass through the own defense - ending up right in front of Square´s Leo Seals, who easily put the ball away for 0-1.

No it sucks...it gave my players star rankings, but gave everyone on both teams disasterous ratings...It says I scored 5-0 but doesn't say who...I'm confused...though it did put money in the coffers and made me advance...

What I want to know is...is this considered a walkover and do my players get experience...I really wanted my weak form players to get some form...and will I get some stats?!?

hooligans up 2-0

you get the experience just as if you actually played, you get the gate as if you had actually played, i don't think anyone will get credit for the goals, you got all disasterous ratings because you didn't actually play :)

Many thought Mark Davis ought to have been awarded a penalty shot in the 17:th minute, as he went down trying to circle the visitors keeper Manuel Bossio

WOOOHOOO nothing like paying off the refs!!!

Players get experience in walkovers (which all end 5-0)

GrantDawg's Newton Rams are up 1-0 on a team in my division that sold half their team today.

Is it just me or is 12 minutes into the game a tad premature to pull back to play defense? Damn coach.

hooligans up 3-0 early

In a related matter, has anyone in FOFC played to PK's in actual competition? Just making conversation, waiting for my team to score again :)

Yeah, but I was all excited like my fans, let down...now I gotta figure out who I play against next...I was looking forward to reading my match...now I have to prepare against Ring of Fire in league...(sigh).

Quik, here's 10 grand, go loiter in the transfer lobby for a while :)

A couple of the teams in my division played to PK. Most of them lost too against the bot teams. Shows the quality of my division. :p

Speaking of getting stats, my starting forward suddenly has 55 career goals, 54 of which were league.

He's a player that started out on my team and is only 23. He's scored 1 in each of the games he's played for me, and maybe I just didn't notice the goals before, but I don't remember him having any stats when I started with the team.

Uh, GrantDawg's opponent chose an interesting 3-4-2 combination.

That is an interesting choice. I am keeping close watch on his opponent since he is my main competition in my division.

Palmer Nicholas seemed highly inexperienced when in the 20:th minute he was loitering with the ball, allowing Tom Sheets to intercept and strike 0-1 for Fighting.

1-0.

I went with most of my B team, and played PIC, I'm kinda nervous.

No mustn't spend money, in debt....don't want to...end up...like poor crawfish...aurrrhhghhhh!!...well maybe I'll go look..

Not going to jinx it this time...

The referee signalled a penalty in the 24:th minute following an offence just inside of the box. Tony Spicer knocked home 0 - 3 just out of reach for the goaltender.

Sigh, at least no one else is around the lab right now.

The team played a match. Spectator income amounted to 10 560 US$.

And why do the D6 teams get home field. Now I am in Washingon D.C. to play the Wolves.

Went from losing $36,000 at the beginning of the week, sell two C teamers, and make money off of a friendly, and only lose $6,000. If only I had had a home league game this week.

Fighting´s Norman Scruggs received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 28:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 2. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

Hit em hard, and often.

Masked, are you winning or losing?

Illinifan - each week, they pair the top ranked team v. the bottom rank team, and work toward the middle. The lower rank team always plays at home.

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 17:th minute allowed Dimitris Lalis to score 0 - 1 for Negative

Bought the kid just the other day, I'm so proud. Should be killing these guys though (forgot to PIC).

John Colvin increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 3.

HA - Gimpy the wounded wretched soccer player scores a goal, maybe I won't sell him to The Afoci for advertising rights at his stadium.

Ok thanks for clearing that up.

In the games 31st minute goldurnears´s Elijah Dupree fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Elijah Dupree for taking a dive.

He BOOKED the PROPHET

oh, he will pay for that

I am winning 3-0. My coach pulled back after 11 minutes, but my star forward picked up his second goal in the 24th minute. Very similar to the league match on Sunday, when he was shut out for the last 70 minutes.

Screamin' took the lead after 18 minutes with 0 - 1. Jesper Gravesen placed the ball out of reach for the home sides keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left. After 33 minutes Arizona´s Karl Friedman contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game. The visitors Lucian Tere took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 33rd minute. 0 - 2 for Screamin'. Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 34:th minute Screamin' goal, making it 0 - 3. Lucian Tere was noted down as the scorer. The structure of the game started to change as Screamin' decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The big Romanian is having a field day, and I didn't even tell him to play offensive.

:D

4-0 right now for the McGees. Sometimes I feel sorry for these bot teams. :D

McGees´s Paul Dillon gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead in the 8:th minute with a superb strike from the right. McGees's Thad Amos scored 0 - 2 by shooting accurately and hard from a long distance, leaving the opponent goalie no other option than to pick up the ball from the net. In the 30:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as Thad Amos finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 33rd minute McGees goal, making it 0 - 4. Jed Churchill was noted down as the scorer. By now McGees were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

DK, have you recovered from Sunday yet? :)

Is anyone else watching the Fighting Crawfish game with great interest?

The Crawfish go down 1-0.... :( :( Time to reopen operation panhandle because we are broke again.

The away team´s Norman Scruggs took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 33rd minute increasing Fighting´s lead to 0 - 3. Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 37:th minute Fighting goal, making it 0 - 4. Leon Breaux was noted down as the scorer. The structure of the game started to change as Fighting decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Always fun to kill a team when you PIC, and playing most of your B team. :D

Now 2 nill. Could this be the end of the Crawfish? :(

Crawfish go down 2-0. The lights are going out in Fargo ND... :(

Not yet, but it looks like this match should help quite a bit. Team confidence was absolutely decimated on Sunday.

goldurnears came close to extending their lead as Andy Morales delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was to sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal. Bernard Martinez increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 4. The structure of the game started to change as goldurnears decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

WOOT
WOOT
WOOT

How many licks does it take?

WOOT
WOOT
WOOT

Lars started raising hell and got booked!!!! They are showing some life, get her together boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2-0 lead now

Will you go get another team Afoci???
plus... how do you get another team?? i thought they only allow you to have one team, once

Ugh! Every time we take the lead they COME RIGHT BACK!

2-2, and I'm tearing my hair out.

This angers me even more, because I'd accepted early this week that I'd lose, I just wanted more experience with my 4-5-1, now I find myself freaking out at the thought my boys might not pull it off. :)

Since my early goal they have nearly scored twice, though my keeper has saved us so far.

I did have one winger go off with an injury, though his replacement was about on par with him, so I have no drop off in talent level, I hope.

still up 1-0

You've GOT to score against the Armadillos, Afoci. Their keeper put up 0* in his last outing.

In the 43rd minute United put themselves up 0 - 5 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Roffe Duvholt. ...

5-0 in the first half...too bad one of my strikers got hurt

I'm on my 2nd team...the defunct Qwakers are gone...I started up with the Ultra Nox...The Crawfish still have a chance y'know...they have three weeks to get under 500k should they exceed that amount...then he'll have to reapply...but let's hold out some hope.

2-0 at half 78% possession

back-up's playing pretty good :)

hooligans up 3-0 with 90 percent possesion at the half

"It's halftime here at the HatPub, with the Goldurnears cruising and headed to round 3. I'm Loretta "Sloppy" Jones, here getting wicked f(bleep)cking drunk with "bg". Bg, how many times do you think you can do me tonight?"

"Slopster, I'm not sure this is (belch) the time or place..."

"Oh, f(bleep)ck it, I want you right now, take off your pants!!"

"Uhh, oh what the hell, I'm going bang the s(bleep)it out of you, I hope you have some Immodium at home....

Leo Seals was, after 44 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors lead with a well placed diving header but home side keeper Charley Landis saved. 0 - 1 was the half-time score.

Got the half time lead, now it's up to my 5 defenders.


Colorado held the ball, with a clear 56 percent possession rate. :eek:

Hopefully my stamina training will pay off in half 2 and I can hold the ball longer.

Other FOFC Hattrick updates:

MylesKnight and his First Coast Conquistadors are down 3 - 0 with only 27% posession.



A quick poll. How many of you have bot and how many of you have human opponents.

I for one am going against a bot.

I know 0*. I thought the pregame pep talk would help. There goalie has a value of like 73k or something, so that is weak. for the love of all that is Crawfish, what is happening????

I saw on the conferences once that one of the GMs cleared his economy page, I would be happy if they would like life maybe 100k or 150k of my debt.... or I could just win and go on... Please let one of these happen...

Grrr.... 70% rate of possession and a lousy 1-0 lead. Hope my superior stamina kicks in the second half.

Almost all the way down to the corner flag Paofai Croom-Carter somhow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for Sam Jones who struck for 0 - 1. Due to some great work on the right wing Spartans:s Long Burton was able to even the score in the 12th minute to 1 - 1. Galesburg took the lead in the games 16:th minute with 1 - 2 after some elegant plays down the middle. Leonardo Andres Alvaro was the scorer. The away team´s Elliott Hammond took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 23rd minute increasing Galesburg´s lead to 1 - 3. Juán Applegate of Spartans received a yellow card in the 28:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Halftime score was 1 - 3. Galesburg held the ball, with a clear 75 percent possession rate.

HOW DARE MY TRAINEES LET THEM SCORE!

You see what happens when you go offensive, Coffee? :D

Up 3-1 at half with 87% possesion. I love Criollo, I'm watching 4 games right now. It would be more, but I would have to check it too often.

3-nil at halftime. Only 68% possession though. About what I expected with only two middies.

And the from the visitor locker room, it could be heard growing in volume....Crawfish, Crawfish, CRAWFISH!!!!!!!!

ZAP! BOOM! SQUISH!

You see what happens when you go defensive, DK? :P

The FrogMan's back and proud to report a 6-0 win even though our showing was less than stellar...

Our ratings:
Pintendre Pittbulls
Midfield: weak
Right Side Defence: passable
Central Defence: passable
Left Side Defence: weak
Right Side Attack: poor
Central Attack: weak
Left Side Attack: weak
NSI: 39

Their ratings:
Cornwall Axemen
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched
Right Side Defence: inadequate
Central Defence: passable
Left Side Defence: passable
Right Side Attack: weak
Central Attack: poor
Left Side Attack: weak
NSI: 34

We got 68% possession of the ball in both the first and second half, which certainly helped give us 8 scoring chances and only one for our opponent. Team confidence is now at wonderful and the money earned brought to -254k C$ which gives us a little bit of room to shop for one or two defenders. What do you want, I'm a compulsive transfer market shopper...

Afoci, everyone here in Pintendre, Quebec, all 6233 of us, are rooting for you!!! GO CRAWFISH!!!

FrogMan

Actually I'm running a 4-4-2 today. :p

I'm playing a bot team.

Anyone need a date tonight, I hear that Bebec A. Kes is looking for a rebound friend for the night.

Beating head against the wall....They have a 0* goalie...

Halftime score was 0 - 6. Aviators held the ball, with a clear 77 percent possession rate

I'm not displeased with the PIC and 'B' team's effort.

Is anyone besides me, secretly thinking that the next few days of The Afoci's dynasty could be very entertaining?